Panel 1: The Data Science Workforce Challenge

Panel 1 Guiding Question: ​
Why is the development of targeted career pathways for high school and community college an essential strategy for expanding access to Data Science careers?​

Panelists
Moderator, Karla Talanian, MassBioEd
Sudeshna Das, Mass General Hospital
Shuba Gopal, Broad Institute
Iain McFadyen, LifeMine Theraputics
Sally Trabucco, Foundation Medicine

Expanding Access to Data Science Careers

Each discussion in the panel series will address a key component critical to the development of a strategic plan to extend and expand the early-stage Data Science pipeline:

• To understand the need for a career pathway that begins with high school and community college students.
• To review existing policies in Massachusetts that support efforts to prepare more students for Data Science careers, and discuss what additional policy support might be needed.
• To learn from programs that broaden participation in other disciplines and apply those best practices in developing outreach and support programs for a more diverse community of students.
• To discover current initiatives for high school and community college students and discuss how they may form the basis of the early-stage Data Science pipeline.